Deputy Chairman, Division of Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Head & Senior Consultant, Neonatology, KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Academic Vice Chair (Clinical) Paediatrics Academic Clinical Programme

Dr Chua Mei Chien is a neonatologist with academic appointments in all three medical schools in Singapore. Her special areas of interest include preterm nutrition, breastfeeding and the impact of nutrition on long term health. She has led in numerous clinical programs as well as industry and investigator initiated clinical trials in these areas. Notably, she established the first Donor Human Milk Bank in Singapore, in partnership with Temasek Foundation in 2017, which has since benefitted more than six thousand vulnerable sick and preterm babies. She is currently working towards establishing new models of care to stem the tide of metabolic disease in mothers and their children in Singapore, in line with the Healthier SG national agenda. She is a co-lead in the Healthy Early Life Moments in Singapore (HELMS) clinical program and advisor for the SingHealth Community Nursing Maternal and Child Health Clinical Workgroup.